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  • Rapper Danny Brown returns with Old. It’s an album that mirrors the Detroit native’s constant cycle of drug-fueled partying and remorse that was introduced on 2011’s XXX. The major difference this time around being heavier instrumentals and Danny’s split personalities feeling even more at odds.

  • West Coast MC LMNO laid some visuals to the track “Dyslexic” early last month, and it’s one of the many cuts from his new, Evidence-produced album, After The Fact. It’s an interesting little concept track with interesting lyrical reversals, switching letters and entire halves of words within bars

  • Made Man EP by Hot Sugar Beatsmith Hot Sugar has always had a quirkier style than most when it comes to production, and it’s great to hear him enlist a gauntlet of MCs that compliment it on his new Made Man EP. Now, is this thing really an EP?

  • October 8th is the release date for Pusha T’s forthcoming album, My Name Is My Name, and I’m pretty psyched given all of the solid tracks that have dropped thus far. “King Push” just adds to that winning streak with a wild beat that’s both zany and

  • British rapper ThisisDA is slated to release his full-length debut, Super Arkane, later this year. Above, check out the project’s lead single, “Lifers,” a simultaneously hard-hitting and colorful piece of boom-bap produced by Mancunian beatsmith Mankub, who lends instrumentals to the entire album. Enjoy!

  • Check out the Rollo Jackson-directed music video for Danny Brown’s new song “Dip.” Like the RUFFMERCY-helmed video for “ODB,” this new video is a twisted and druggy onslaught of quick cuts, zany effects, and colorful scrawling, all of which wonderfully complement the MC’s brashness, as well as the

  • Brooklyn rapper YC the Cynic has dropped a music video for GNK cut “The Heaviest Cross.” The video features YC cavorting through a dank studio, with imagery including him offhandedly pushing over a teddy bear, traipsing about on the couch, and briefly playing dress-up. Check it out above! Also be